Read this excerpt from chapter 1 of twenty years at hull house and answer the question.

once again i heard his testimony in favor of “mental integrity above everything else.”

at the time we were driving through a piece of timber in which the wood chopper had been at work during the winter, and so earnestly were we talking that he suddenly drew up the horses to find that he did not know where he was. we were both entertained by the incident, i that my father had been “lost in his own timber” so that various cords of wood must have escaped his practiced eye, and he on his side that he should have become so absorbed in this maze of youthful speculation.

“what are you? what do you say when people ask you? ”

his eyes twinkled a little as he soberly replied:

“i am a quaker.”

“but that isn’t enough to say,” i urged.

“very well,” he added, “ to people who insist upon details, as some one is doing now, i add that i am a hicksite quaker”; and not another word on the weighty subject could i induce him to utter.

hep ! the underlined text is important to the author’s future legacy because it reinforces the idea that conversation

is a way to get lost and follow the less traveled road from time to time
is the beginning of open discussion and deeper understanding of others
is a delightful way to pass the time and stay entertained during some free time
is her means of connecting with her father’s in a significant way